A woman of the Left who garners praise from Noam Chomsky and Greg Palast at the same time as she is quoted respectfully in Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, LORETTA NAPOLEONI was born in 1955 in Rome. In the mid 1970s she became an active member of the feminist movement in Italy, and later studied as a Fulbright Scholar at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. She began her career as an economist, and went on to work as London correspondent and columnist for La Stampa, La Repubblica and La Pais. Napoleoni is the author of the international bestsellers Rogue Economics: Capitalism's New Reality and Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism. She has served as the Chairman of the countering terrorism financing group for the Club de Madrid, and lectures regularly around the world on economics, money laundering and terrorism. Napoleoni lives in London and Montana.
"Timely and fascinating, Napoleoni's top-notch reporting, in which
her attention turns from Viagra to blood diamonds to the banana
price wars in a few pages, works in the vein of Freakonomics and
Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, but much grimmer."
-Publishers Weekly on Napoleoni's Rogue Economics, a PW Book of
the Year 2008
"This thoughtful and incisive inquiry yields much insight into some
of the most important issues of today, and tomorrow" -Noam
Chomsky on Napoleoni's Terror Incorporated
"... In urging the West to abandon its prejudices and fundamentally
rethink its ideology, [Loretta Napoleoni] is asking the right
questions." -Morning Star
"With her hands on China's skull, Napoleoni can map the phrenology
of a billion and a half Chinese minds as they struggle with the
complex contradictions of this new and still-churning mix of
capitalism and communism. . . . If you want to understand the force
that will direct your children and your children's children, read
this book. Twice." -Greg Palast
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